(S26) - PT 2 - You Sit on a Throne of Lies

[Cincyfan96]

Here's my spicy hot take: Adam Schell - LB for the Berlin Fire Salamanders - will be the league leader in tackles this season. Will he be the Defensive MVP? No. Should he be? Also no. The ISFL is a league of its own and the S24 DSFL Defensive MVP is not quite to the point where he will be competing for league MVP honors - trust me, he'll get there. However, he has settled in nicely to his roll as a run stopper and short coverage specialist for the Berlin Fire Salamanders. While it can be confusing to find him on the field - the Salamanders inexplicably have three #55's in their base defensive package - the opposition is feeling Schell's presence with bruising tackles left and right. He currently sits third in the league in tackles with 49 through 5 games, on pace to hit just under 160 tackles a season after recording 100 even in his rookie campaign. While he will have to work on his big playmaking before he becomes a candidate for Defensive MVP (his lone interception was impressive, but only 1 TFL and zero sacks through 5 games will not cut it), he is making strides towards becoming a household name in the ISFL. So why the confidence that he will lead the league in tackles this season? Opportunity. Berlin's offense cannot sustain drives this season, ranking in the bottom three in points scored so far, yet their defense cannot get off the field and has allowed by far the most points to their opposition. This is not happening via big plays very often, so Schell has plenty of opportunity to log tackles as he's been on the field non stop throughout the first 5 games and there is no reason to think this will stop anytime soon. While frustrating, this will allow Schell to continue to rack up big numbers the rest of the season which is why I predict that he will lead the ISFL in tackles in this his sophomore season. We'll see if he can win any games in the process...

[Hordle]

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[Swanty]

Berlin sux lmap

[CalvinGolladay]

It's pretty much been confirmed that I'm out of the running for OLotY yet again. I opened the season with 3 pancakes and 1 sack allowed in each of the first two games of the season, and allowing any sacks pretty much kills any shot at winning the award. Despite this, I've managed to rebound since then, and I currently have 29 pancakes without allowing any more sacks. The problem with this is that those two sacks came at the very beginning of the season. Knowing how well I tend to play, there will definitely be more in the future. The two sacks already moves me out of the running for winning the position, but high pancake numbers will probably be good enough to sneak me into the nominations if my sack total from changing. But, as I said, that's probably not going to happen. I just can't see the awards committee nominating an OL that's allowed 3+ sacks, so my chances at a nomination are pretty much dead. My best chance would be to take the pancake lead, or at least come close. That way the committee might consider me for a wide variety of stats (like nominating the TD leader, the high volume RB, the most efficient rusher, the best receiving back, etc.) to allow for different opinions among GMs, rather than deciding on their top five despite clearly superior/inferior players (ex. 60 pancakes with 0 sacks and 70 pancakes with 0 sacks both getting nominated).

[Opera_Phantom]

Well, to be honest, Jay Cue's season is going very well, way better than expected. After changing from the interception throwing machine mobile archetype to the (let us hope for its last season) game manager cheese, Cue looks finally an experienced player. This obviously helps the Arizona Outlaws, that are now with a 2 - 3 record, after trashing the Honolulu Hahalua 44 - 20 last night. If the season ended at this point Arizona would miss the playoffs, but Cue would only miss the Most Valuable Player award if something "strange" happened again, like in Season 20, his rookie season. His 110.4 Quarterback rating is 14.3 points higher than the 2nd placed one, as he is currently with a TD to INT ratio of 12:2.
Another hot take is that i am 100% sure that Arizona will make it to the playoffs, even after losing a bunch of important players in free agency and managing to sign absolutely nobody during that time. But morale is high, some games were lost because the sim is gonna sim as usual (of course everyone tests at 80% in this league). But mark my words: Cue is going to finally win his MVP award and Arizona is going to win at least 1 playoff game.


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[Mavfatha]

PBE PT

[AL_GRINGO]

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[Faelax]

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[PMoney]

The Berlin fire salamanders are going to go 0-16 and will probably be contracted. Going into their expansion draft, a lot of people thought that they were getting too many good players in addition to the top pick in the draft. While the first season for an expansion team can be rough, Berlin were meant to be strong contenders in their second season and were some peoples favourites in the NSFC. However, their 0-5 start has proven that they are without a doubt the worst franchise to exist and their existence shouldn’t last long. After seeing the possibility that if you manage to be the top prospect this year you could end up on the Jets of the ISFL, Berlin, no prospects will want to earn any TPE and they will have a massive effect on both this class’s activity level, and recruitment of future classes. With this slow down in new members in mind, the league won’t be able to sustain 14 teams and will have to choose 2 to contract, Berlin being an obvious choice after their terrible roster decisions lead them to multiple winless seasons, the likes of which would make even the S16 Yeti team look elite.

There is even the possibility that their dismal performances will lead their #1 overall pick BamBam McMullet to quit the league and as our simmer, a terribly difficult role to fill, they could cause the whole league to fold. If their owner knew what was good for them, their GMs should be the Berlin Fired Salamanders before they proceed to ruin the whole league.

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This PT does not reflect my opinions on Berlin, they're great.

[Crunk]

My team is too inconsistent and my player too boring to talk about at this point, so let’s talk about my DSFL team, the London Royals.

As I write this, the Royals are sat at 0-1. I say they’re going to the Ultimini again.

I don’t count that Portland loss. London outgained the Pythons on the ground and through the air, and had more first downs. Let’s just write that one off.

London get to the Ultimini. The last two years in a row they’ve steamrolled their way to the big game. They’ll do it again.

Does this current Royals squad have the same level of talent as the S25 DSFL Championship squad that had 6 top-8 ISFL draft picks? That remains to be seen, but the secret sauce in London has never been the talent. It’s the coaching and the culture.

Looking at the team, they returned a host of offensive talent, and have a veteran secondary with five Ultimini appearances between them. They remember the pain of being upset last year by a subpar Luchadores team, and will do everything they can to put it right.

To top it off, they got another quarterback. “But wait,” I hear you cry, “isn’t Charlemagne Cortez their quarterback?” Yes, yes he is, but you know what’s better than having a quarterback? Having two. That’s just simple mathematics.

To conclude, London will win everything this season and other teams shouldn’t even try.